Is it actually worth the time investment to be able to make those 55 essence? Also how did you keep your sanity?

Hard to tell if it’s worth it, kind of depends on what else you could do I guess

Lvl 55s are surely gonna a take a long while though, I found that by the time I could do 35s, I started making some decent fg from selling Essences and items that I rolled.

Best of luck!

This post was edited by TGHodin on Sep 4 2022 05:45am

It’s only worth it to start muting if you’re gonna keep muting.

For keeping sanity, I can work with 1 hand, so the other is holding down mute button…I also mute while I watch tv.

oh my god... you can hold the button DOWN? I thought this entire time I had to time my clicks when the ! point appeared.

This…

Yea. This...

Exactly why I gave up at level 4 fishing. I was clicking away in rhythm with that damn !
Thinking "omg wtf, how do these people do this"

fishing you kind of have to click due to needing to hit the snag counter.

In general the rule to fishing is to click reel as soon as it starts,
then for all further clicks, wait till the red bar moves, then click. you lose like 0.2 secs per click but it avoids missing when you need to click snag counter and given it's only 2 seconds you lose max using this method, should be 100% safe.
Also a case of using the right rod, using a lower durability rod is actually faster than using a high durability rod, but a bit less consistent. So depending on your current prof and what fish you're trying to catch which rod you use will change. i personally spam fish so i stick with 40 dura or less rods and fish upto 5 prof ahead during a 40%+ faster fishing event.

Also fishing is generally a lot faster than muting from what i've seen. Even the level 15+ fish still take 10 clicks max and down to about 5 clicks during a good fishing event. Muting takes entire minutes for the later ones.
i personally do not have that patience for muting.


If you MQ less than twice per week, i would suggest ignoring it myself, better off spending the time killing mobs for the chance of a good drop to slowly work on something which requires about 30 hours to get to a spot where you get something worth selling.

Lmao yeah you can click and hold 😂

That's just the decision between:

* Hoping for loot with small or big potential income (or nothing)
* Having a fix income due to skilling

After it takes time, I personnaly skills more than I play but most of the skills require lvl 15-20+ to generate fg.
Fishing to get a stack of ~500fish of a kind it's like 10-12k proficiency then you have to cook them (2h-2h30 for 500), assuming at a certain moment you will cook all your stack of fish

500 sardine = 1fg
500 herring = 25fg raw / 40-50fg cooked
500 cods = 45fg raw / 85fg cooked
500 trouts= 130fg -180fg cooked
for 10h of fishing <lvl20 + 7h of cooking ~300fg/17h
and of course it gets better time after time

You still have to be mindful of volatility bar (if it goes fully red the item gets deleted) and don’t accidentally hit abort (also deletes item unless you didn’t start muting).

I used to sell 10 tier III essences for 1 fg, 5 tier iv essences for 1 fg, 1 tier V essence for 1 fg and while it won’t make you rich a little here and there helps since I typically do my muting in between heal sessions.